The Problem With Congress

We have seen a lot of finger pointing and blame game going on as to why Congress let the government shut down and we have seen that Congress and some of its leaders have a very low popularity rate, but what we have not seen is the root of these problems. The media will not touch it.

The blame of our government's failures lies squarely on the head of Senate Leader Harry Reid. His Senate has not passed a single budget since Obama was sworn into office in 2009. The US House has passed and sent multiple budgets with bipartisan support to the Senate and Reid has killed every one. How can any entity run properly without a budget? How can any entity run a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit every year since Obama was sworn in?

As with the government shutdown, the House passed three bipartisan bills to fund the government and the Senate shot down every one, including the one where all of Congress and its staff be put on equal footing with the common citizen for healthcare in exchange for a mere delay in Obamacare so more can be learned about the highly flawed law. Reid shot it down. Reid will not even meet with his adversaries to negotiate.

Apparently Reid and his Senate see themselves as above the people they supposedly represent. This is obviously noted when Reid recently said on the Senate floor that they are there "to serve the federal government", not the American people.

No wonder his popularity numbers are rock bottom, yet he is still one of the top government officials of our country.

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The Problem With Congress

We have seen a lot of finger pointing and blame game going on as to why Congress let the government shut down and we have seen that Congress and some of its leaders have a very low popularity rate,